Determine JDBC Driver Version

You may be required to determine the version of a JDBC driver used to connect to your Oracle Database. In cases were the JDBC driver used is the one included with Oracle Client or Database […]

Switchover to a Physical Standby using the Data Guard Command Line Interface

The Data Guard Command Line Interface can be used to manage your Data Guard environment through the command line. Using the Data Guard Command Line Interface, dgmgrl, you can manage the broker configuration along with […]

Switchover to a Physical Standby using Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

A switchover can be used to reduce downtime for planned outages such as patching to the database or host OS and hardware upgrades. In a switchover the primary database is transitioned to the standby role […]

Data Guard Switchover to a Physical Standby

A switchover can be used to reduce downtime for planned outages such as patching to the database or host OS and hardware upgrades. In a switchover the primary database is transitioned to the standby role […]

Data Guard Standby Archive Destination Full

Problem: You notice the following error in the alert.log of the Data Guard Standby database. Your Standby is configured to write its archive logs to the Fast Recovery Area. Solution: You have several of options […]

Quick RMAN configuration for disk based backups

This document will detail a quick set up of RMAN for disk based backups using Oracle Database 11gR2 base.

Privileges, Roles and Users in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

The term user by its self leaves much to interpretation as to the type of user. In Enterprise Manager the concept of a user must be thought of as an Administrator but that still leaves […]

Introduction to the High Availability Console in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

The High Availability Console provides the administrator comprehensive information about the primary and standby databases in a dashboard format. On one page you can see information about availability events, redo rates, transport and apply lag […]

Create a Physical Standby Database using Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control greatly simplifies the creation of physical or logical standby databases. The Add Standby Database wizard provides a quick way to get a Standby database up and running in record […]

Check Password Policy for sudo fails when attempting to deploy a Deployment Procedure

In order to deploy a Deployment Procedure for an Oracle Home or CRS image you will need to have sudo configured correctly.

Deploying an Oracle Home Image with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

In the post, Build a Pre-Created Oracle Home Image for Database Provisioning with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control, I detailed how to build an image of an Oracle Database Home that was already installed […]

Build a Pre-Created Oracle Home Image for Database Provisioning with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

How many times have you been asked to install Oracle Database on a new machine? If you are like most administrators it comes all too often. Not only do we get requests for new installs […]

Configuring the Software Library for Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

Administrators using the provisioning and patching features of Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control can automate the deployments of software, applications and patches across the entire software stack.

Clone a Database to Another Host using Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

This document will detail the steps to clone a database to another host using Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control.

Disabling Access to Management Packs in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control has numerous features that make monitoring, managing and provisioning databases extremely easy. Processes that would normally take numerous steps or scripts can be accomplished in a few mouse clicks using […]

Setup Agent for Mass Deployment in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

This document will detail the steps to manually setup mass deployment of the Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control Agent for 32bit Linux systems. See the post Installing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11gR1 on […]

Adding Agents for Mass Agent Deployment in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

When you install Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control an agent for mass deployment is included with the install. This mass deploy agent is for hosts that have the same OS in which Grid Control […]

Metric Collection Error after fresh install of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control

Scenario: You have completed the install of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11gR1 Grid Control and noticed the that repository database has a status with Metric Collection Error.

Starting and Stopping Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control

This document will detail the steps required to stop and start Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control and all its components. For information on installing Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control see the post Install […]

Installing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11gR1 on Linux

This document will detail the installation of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11gR1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5.